SAN FRANCISCO - The city will pay $85,000 to settle claims that a former investigator in the district attorney's office was th...

SACRAMENTO - A Placer County judge went too far in trying to keep things moving during his arraignment calendar sessions, the ...

SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Mark Leno unveiled a package of campaign finance reforms Tuesday that he said would be fairer to cand...

KENWOOD - The young man's father kicked him out for violating the "house rule" of no marijuana smoking. He didn't attend schoo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A local gay couple is suing an Internet adoption firm for denying them access to its paid online services. In ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For plaintiffs attorneys, just like holiday shoppers, waiting until the last minute can be risky business. A s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and one of its most vocal critics announced a potential breakthrough compromise T...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHITTIER - The Mediterranean Apartments, a 257-unit garden-style community, has received $14 million in pe...

LOS ANGELES - Embattled Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan T. Oki, who was criticized for his role in releasing felony suspe...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - On Jan. 1, a bill hailed as the toughest anti-spam law...

Forum Column - By Leslie Gielow Jacobs - This term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the U.S. Constitution's free-ex...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge Monday recused the public defender's office from representing an accused murderer who re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired appellate Justice Sidney Feinberg, who served on the Court of Appeal in San Francisco and the Santa Cl...

SAN FRANCISCO - In this city, where some view graffiti artists more as exterior decorators than criminals, the district attorn...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday gave police greater latitude to arrest everyone in a car stopped for a routine traffi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the U.S. Transportation Department must prepare an in-dept...

LOS ANGELES - Presiding Justice Charles S. Vogel announced Monday he will retire from the state Court of Appeal after 44 years...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer cleared the path Monday for proponents of a proposed ballot initiative that would r...

Column By Garry Abrams - How do you measure the decline of a city? One way is the toilet cleanliness index. By that standard, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris raided neighborhoods won by incumbent Terence Hallinan in the November e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Call it the Battle for the Bay. Depending on who's right, the San Francisco Bay cruise market is not big enoug...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Ollie Marie-Victoire, at 80 the grande dame of the San Francisco bench, has defended murd...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Vice President Dick Cheney has to release documents abo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court gave county prosecutors a green light Monday to bring misconduct charges against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Closed-door negotiating intensified Monday at the state Public Utilities Commission over sticking points in th...

If Gary Singer didn't spend his days crafting corporate deals and serving as managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' two Or...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - A celebrity in the courtroom poses a problem, be it Kobe Bryant, Robert Blake ...

Citing firm policy, attorneys at Palo Alto-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich refuse to comment on the departure of corpor...

Half of the attorneys from Santa Monica's Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens have new homes following the announcem...

Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker is still the big one in Orange County. But Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth added 13 lawyer...